Brazil Female literacy rate, ages 15-24

(percent, source: UNESCO)

Brazil Female literacy rate, ages 15-24: For that indicator, UNESCO provides data for Brazil from 1980 to 2013. The average value for Brazil during that period was 97.15 percent with a minumum of 85.24 percent in 1980 and a maximum of 99.23 percent in 2013.

Definition: Youth (15-24) literacy rate (%). Female is the number of females age 15 to 24 years who can both read and write with understanding a short simple statement on their everyday life, divided by the female population in that age group. Generally, ‘literacy’ also encompasses ‘numeracy’, the ability to make simple arithmetic calculations.